PHANGS-JWST First Results: Mid-infrared emission traces both gas column density and heating at 100 pc scales

Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Erik Rosolowsky +48

We compare mid-infrared (mid-IR), extinction-corrected H$\alpha$, and CO (2-1) emission at 70--160 pc resolution in the first four PHANGS-JWST targets. We report correlation strengths,…